PepsiCo Inc (NYSE:PEP) reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and sales and raised its full-year adjusted earnings forecast as higher prices helped drive revenue growth in its beverages business for just the second time in nearly four years.
The company's shares rose 3 percent to $98.49 in premarket trading on Thursday.
PepsiCo, like other soft drink makers, has been battling falling soda sales in the United States, with customers turning to healthier drinks that use more natural ingredients.
However, revenue from the company's Americas beverages business, its largest, rose 1 percent to $5.34 billion in the second quarter, as its strategy of raising prices to offset the impact of a strong dollar paid off.
Organic volume sales in the region also rose 1 percent, the company said.
The company said on Wednesday that it would report results for its North America beverages business separately from the third quarter instead of clubbing it with Latin America beverage sales.
Frito-Lay snacks sales in North America, PepsiCo's second-largest business, grew 2 percent to $3.45 billion in the second quarter. The business sells snacks such as Doritos tortilla chips and Cheetos.
The company raised its forecast for 2015 adjusted earnings per share growth to 8 percent on a constant currency basis, or about $5 per share, from 7 percent.
Net income attributable to PepsiCo rose marginally to $1.98 billion, or $1.33 per share, in the second quarter ended June 13, from $1.98 billion, or $1.29 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, the company earned $1.32 per share.
Net revenue fell 5.7 percent to $15.92 billion as a stronger dollar continued to weigh on overseas sales.
Analysts on an average had expected earnings of $1.24 per share and revenue of $15.80 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Up to Wednesday's close, the company's shares had risen 6.6 percent in the last 12 months.


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La maquinaria agrícola es el conjunto de máquinas y equipos que utilizan los agricultores en sus labores.
Una máquina agrícola es un conjunto de piezas fijas y móviles que permite transformar energía o realizar un trabajo agrícola.

Historia

Antigüedad
Durante la antigüedad predominó el trabajo manual en las actividades agrícolas. La mecanización se reducía principalmente al uso del arado, del arado-sembrador usado en Sumeria, del trillo y de otras contadas máquinas en algunas regiones. Un adelanto muy importante fue el reemplazo del trabajo o la tracción humana por la animal, como lo fue el paso del uso de la azada al arado, primero traccionado por hombres y luego por bueyes.

La Revolución industrial
Con la llegada de la Revolución industrial y del desarrollo de máquinas más complejas, la mecanización de los cultivos dio un gran paso adelante. Los antiguos arados de madera fueron reemplazados por arados de hierro o acero. En lugar de segar el trigo a mano con una hoz o guadaña se introdujo la segadora que permitía realizar una siega continua. En vez de trillar el grano mediante el pisoteo de bueyes o caballos o con trillos se lo hacía con trilladoras. La mayoría de estas máquinas usaban bueyes o caballos como animales de tiro y generadores de energía.

Energía de vapor
La energía para la maquinaria agrícola fue suministrada originariamente por bueyes, caballos u otros animales domesticados. La invención de la máquina de vapor permitió la introducción del motor móvil y más adelante la locomóvil, una fuente de energía móvil multiuso, primero como motores que impulsaban máquinas estacionarias (principalmente trilladoras) y luego arrastrando otras máquinas, substituyendo la tracción animal. Las locomóviles tenían poca potencia según los estándares actuales, un bajo rendimiento térmico y elevado peso, lo que limitaba sus posibilidades como tractores.

El motor de combustión interna

El motor de ciclo Otto primero y luego los motores diésel fueron reemplazando las locomóviles a partir de comienzos del siglo XX como tractores de máquinas de arrastre. Posteriormente también se utilizaron para equipar otras máquinas agrícolas como las cosechadoras, las pulverizadoras, etc. convirtiéndolas en máquinas automotrices.
Durante el siglo XX el tractor tuvo muchos perfeccionamientos, aumentando su versatilidad, mejorando su rendimiento mecánico (relación entre la potencia en la barra de tiro y la de la toma de potencia), incorporando motores de mejor rendimiento térmico, etc. A comienzos del siglo XXI los tractores eran muy diferentes de los fabricados 100 años atrás.

Nuevas tecnologías
Las nuevas tecnologías de cultivo que se fueron desarrollando en el campo agrario también requirieron nuevas máquinas. Es así como empezaron a utilizarse máquinas como pulverizadoras, abonadoras, cosechadoras, embolsadoras en silo bolsa, enfardadoras de heno, etc.
Otras tecnologías nuevas eliminaron máquinas tradicionales substituyéndolas por otras. Así, la siembra directa dejó obsoletas todas las máquinas de labranza (arados, rastras de disco, rastras de dientes o gradas) y las sembradoras tradicionales, reemplazándolas por sembradoras de siembra directa, muy distintas de las tradicionales. Los sistemas de posicionamiento global ayudan a guiar tractores y máquinas autopropulsadas y permite la aplicación de la agricultura de precisión.

Tipos de máquinas agrícolas

 Abonadora
 Arado
 Arado cincel
 Arado de secado
 Excavadora
 Cortadora de césped
 Cosechadora
 Cosechadora de algodón
 Cosechadora de cereales

 Cosechadora de forraje
 Cosechadora de remolacha
 Cultivador
 Descompactador
 Desmotadora de algodón
 Desbrozadora o motoguadaña
 Desgranadora
 Desvaradora
 Enfardadora o empacadora

 Fumigadora
 Grada o rastra de dientes
 Motocultor
 Motor para riego
 Plataforma de recogida de frutas
 Pulverizadora
 Rastra de discos
 Remolque
 Rodillo o rolo

 Rotocultor
 Secadora de granos
 Segadora
 Sembradora
 Subsolador
 Tractor
 Trituradora o moledora
 Vendimiadora
 Vibrocultivador

Aperos o implementos y máquinas agrícolas antiguas
 Arado romano
 Azada
 Guadaña
 Hoz
 Rastrillo (herramienta)
 Trillo
 Trilladora
 Aventadora o Beldadora
 Arado de vapor

Mecanización de la agricultura

La mecanización de la agricultura, o sea el reemplazo de trabajo humano por trabajo animal primero y mecánico después, ha sido una constante a lo largo de la historia. Este proceso se ha acelerado notablemente a partir del siglo XIX (nuevas máquinas), acentuándose en el siguiente con la motorización (tractorización) de la agricultura.
La mecanización ha reducido substancialmente el tiempo insumido en las labores agropecuarias y el esfuerzo humano volcado en las mismas. El hombre ha reemplazado trabajo por capital y con ello ha incrementado sensiblemente su productividad. Por ejemplo, un agricultor romano a comienzos de nuestra era producía alrededor de 1,3 kg de trigo por hora de trabajo; actualmente su colega en Argentina produce poco más de 3.000 kg por hora.  Desde luego, este aumento de la productividad no se debe exclusivamente a la mecanización de los cultivos (hubo sensibles aumentos en los rendimientos, mejores tecnologías en la lucha contra las adversidades, etc.), pero la mecanización no ha dejado de desempeñar un papel muy importante.
Lamentablemente hay muy poca información estadística referente a la mecanización en el mundo. Según el Banco Mundial a fines del siglo XX había alrededor de 19 tractores cada 1000 ha, pero este promedio mundial dice muy poco acerca de la situación de cada país.
Todo indica que la mecanización de la agricultura va a proseguir a ritmo acelerado, requiriéndose cada vez menos horas de trabajo humano por hectárea. Como consecuencia, cada vez más personas deberán buscar su ocupación en otros sectores de la economía prosiguiendo el éxodo rural.

La revisión sistemática de 31 estudios, la mayoría concernientes al África subsahariana, encontró que una mayor mecanización, podrían impulsar la productividad agrícola en algunos países de ingresos bajos o medios-bajos. Sin embargo, todavía no existe un consenso con respecto a si el subsidio de estos insumos constituye una forma efectiva de estimular su uso. Por ello, se ha planteado examinar la evidencia acerca de los impactos de los subsidios a los insumos, en factores como la productividad agrícola, los ingresos y el bienestar de los beneficiarios, el bienestar de los consumidores y el crecimiento económico. Por último, la base de evidencia es pequeña, por lo que es necesario realizar más investigaciones y en países fuera del África subsahariana para que estos resultados tengan más validez.

Véase también
 Agricultura
 Herramientas agrícolas
 Trilla

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico
 Fabricantes de maquinaria agrícola
 Maquinaria agrícola argentina en la ''Enciclopedia de ciencias y tecnologías en Argentina.

Maquinaria agrícola

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Alte Körbe mausern dank Farbspray zu neuen Schmuckstücken. Der zartrosa Farbton verwandelt die Mauerblümchen in Windeseile.
Even damage to metal or metal sheets can be easily repaired with presto alu Metal Filler. The finished repairs blend in well and are waterproof.
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Where do I begin?? - Stop staring and start sewing!
What a fun, crazy, whirlwind of a weekend that was! My body is tired but my brain is energized. It was so much fun to be around people who love fabric as much as I do. For the first time in my life I could talk and talk about fabric without watching my listener's eyes begin to glaze over.
On Thursday I had my first celebrity encounter when I was heading back into the building after lunch at Burgerville. I saw this gal walking up the steps with this adorable tunic made from Jennifer Paganelli's fabric and ran over to tell her how cute her top was. I got up to her and realized it was Jennifer Paganelli herself!!!!! Ack!!!! She was loaded down with bags full of goodies so I got to help her carry some and had her all to myself for about 5 minutes. She is the nicest, warmest person and it was fun to sit in on her presentation and listen to all the great ideas she had for using fabric. Some even require no sewing and were just beautiful.
Here she is at her display in the Westminster section (I was ready to set up a cot and just live in that corner of the exhibit hall, the blankets were obviously provided for that reason). Cute!
Two luscious fat quarters of Bell Bottom fabric in River and Grey colors.
The fabric manufacturers were handing out free goodies right and left and I'll be handing them out to you all week long! I have a real biggie planned for Friday!
Oh and I just got another delivery from Free Spirit (I've turned into Pavlov's dog. I start to drool everytime the doorbell rings!). I now have 2 more Bell Bottom Georgie Bouquet prints (in the Navy and Fuchsia). Go check them out! Fun!


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The Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition Includes Game and DLC
Australian ratings board refuses classification to Hotline Miami 2
by Nick Gillham on January 15, 2015
Kill 'em Up score-a-thon Hotline Miami 2 has been refused classification in Australia by their ratings board. This means the game cannot be sold or distributed unless the offending scenes in the game are cut, this is despite Australia's recent adoption of an R18 certificate on Videogames.
The game has been classified as RC, the description of which is below:
IGN's Mitch Dyer has cited it as one of the most violent games he has ever played, even calling it 'gross', 'uncomfortable' and 'twisted'.
Possibly a touch heavy handed, but maybe you ahould have a read of an excerpt of the report that Kotaku AU managed to get their hands on and decide for yourselves.
AustraliaDennaton GamesHotline MiamiHotline Miami 2
Nick Gillham
Nick is an avid video game entusiast and has been since his mum first allowed him to play on the Atari 2600 she never touched. To this day he's had the pleasure of playing on a vast array of different gaming machines.
He's a recovering WoW-holic and when he's not playing games he's talking about games, reading about games, writing about games, watching videos about games, watching his son play games or chatting rubbish on Twitter.
A lover, not a fighter and an all round good guy (he would say that, he wrote this after all), he's happy to be here as part of GIAG.
A new Pacer track has been released
Ashes Cricket's PC version was delayed to combat piracy: Big Ant Studios
Ashes Cricket releases on November 16 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC
Gome Home for consoles has been delayed in Europe and Australia
The Lost Chronicles of Zerzura to be Distributed by Lace Mamba Global in the UK and Australia
We Sing Franchise Expands With German And Australian Exclusive Versions

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Q: Locales set to unexisting ones I am using Kubuntu (Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS)
$uname -a
Linux mobile2 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:30:01 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux)

I am facing a very strange problems with locales in Konsole (the KDE's terminal emulator) program .If I login to a normal console it does not exists.
I have set my locale to Bulgarian (bg_BG), however recently I started to receive garbled output in the console when Cyrillic characters were used, even my Thunderbird couldn't work with folders with Cyrillic names.
It turns out that my locales are somehow messed up. Here is what I get from the locale command:
$locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_BG.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en:bg:es:en
LC_CTYPE="en_BG.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_BG.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_BG.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_BG.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_BG.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_BG.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_BG.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_BG.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_BG.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_BG.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_BG.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_BG.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

As you may guess, there is not such locale as en_BG. I have the correct settings in /etc/default/locale.
$cat /etc/default/locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="bg_BG.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="bg_BG.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="bg_BG.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="bg_BG.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="bg_BG.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="bg_BG.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="bg_BG.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="bg_BG.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="bg_BG.UTF-8

If I login as root (I have root enabled), the locale settings are OK, and the console works fine. I am not doing any manual exports of variables, and I could not find why the locales are in such garbled state.
I have tried to reinstall language packs, regenerate locales and searched in various dot files in my home directory but I haven't found anything pointing to where the problem might be.
Any ideas what can mess up my locales in this strange way?

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Holland Pass is the all-in-one pass for any individual traveler visiting Amsterdam or other major cities in the Netherlands, such as Utrecht, The Hague, Rotterdam and other sights of interest. The pass offers savings and benefits at major museums, popular attractions, sightseeing tours, souvenir shops, public transport, bike rental, cheese and clog farms, mill museums, recommended restaurants, shopping tips and much more.
In addition, pass holders enjoy convenience as they have the advantage of gaining fast-track entry at major museums and attractions! Whether you are traveling through Holland or enjoying a city-break in Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague or Rotterdam, Holland Pass will definitely help discover the highlights of Amsterdam and beyond!
Holland Pass offers a choice of 5 free admissions (XL edition 6 free admissions) at museums and attractions and in addition unlimited discounts with "Holland Pass discount card" varying from 10-50% on entry at museums, attractions and at restaurants & shops. Pass holders can visit at their own pace, as Holland Pass is valid for 1 year! (edition 09/10 valid from February 1 2009 - March 2010). The free admissions and discounts offer great "value for money". When visiting more than 2 or 3 museums and attractions, pass holders will always save money as opposed to purchasing individual tickets. Savings continue with the discount card.
Pass holders have the advantage of jumping the queue and gaining fast-track entry at: Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, Hermitage Amsterdam, 1 hour canal cruise, Artis Royal Zoo, Madame Tussauds, The Amsterdam Dungeon, Zuiderzeemuseum, Madurodam and Keukenhof, the place where spring starts in all its glory.
In addition to savings, benefits and convenience, Holland Pass also offers service. A full-colour guide book is included offering detailed information on each museum and attraction, information on each city, walking tours, city maps, recommended restaurants and shopping tips. Pass holders are well-informed on the wide variety of museums and attractions in Amsterdam and in other major cities such as Utrecht, The Hague and Rotterdam.


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Super 2 bedroom and 2 full bathroom suite on south side, away from traffic, in investor friendly building. Recently redecorated and carpeted. Just steps to SkyTrain Station and major shopping. Very well maintained building, recently re-plumbed and no other major issues. Excellent recreation facilities.
Indoo Pool, Tennis Court, Rec.-room.


This document explains topics relating to wireless networks. The main topics discussed include, what type of vulnerabilities exist today in 802.11 networks and ways that you can help prevent these vulnerabilities from being exploited. Wireless networks have not been around for many years. Federal Express has been using a type of wireless networks, common to the 802.11 networks used today, but the general public has recently just started to use wireless networking technology. Because of weak security that exists in wireless networks, companies such as Best Buy have decided to postpone the roll-out of wireless technology. The United States Government has done likewise and is suspending the use of wireless until a more universal, secure solution is available.
Wireless LANs or Wi-Fi is a technology used to connect computers and devices together. Wireless LANs give persons more mobility and flexibility by allowing workers to stay connected to the Internet and to the network as they roam from one coverage area to another. This increases efficiency by allowing data to be entered and accessed on site.
Besides being very simple to install, WLANs are easy to understand and use. With few exceptions, everything to do with wired LANs applies to wireless LANs. They function like, and are commonly connected to, wired Ethernet networks.
The Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance [WECA] is the industry organization that certifies 802.11 products that are deemed to meet a base standard of interoperability. The first family of products to be certified by WECA is that based on the 802.11b standard. This set of products is what we will be studying. Also more standards exist such as 802.11a and 802.11g.
The original 802.11 standard was published in 1999 and provides for data rates at up to 2 Mbps at 2.4 GHz, using either FHSS or DSSS. Since that time many task groups have been formed to create supplements and enhancements to the original 802.11 standard.
The 802.11b TG created a supplement to the original 802.11 standard, called 802.11b, which has become the industry standard for WLANs. It uses DSSS and provides data rates up to 11 Mbps at 2.4 Ghz. 802.11b will eventually be replaced by standards which have better QoS features, and better security.
Peer-to-peer (ad hoc mode) – This configuration is identical to its wired counterpart, except without the wires. Two or more devices can talk to each other without an AP.
Client/Server (infrastructure networking) – This configuration is identical to its wired counterpart, except without the wires. This is the most common wireless network used today, and what most of the concepts in this paper apply to.


The Upstate will be under a flash flood watch Thursday due to a potential rain threat from Hurricane Michael.
The watch will be in effect late Wednesday night through Thursday evening, according to the National Weather Service in Greer.
Heavy rain and flash flooding will be possible across parts of the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia as the storm moves across the southeast.
"The main area of heavy rain associated with Michael will spread northeast into the region late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning," the National Weather Service in Greer said. "The threat for heavy rain and flash flooding will be highest during the day on Thursday."
The flash flood watch was issued for the entire Upstate and includes Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Pickens, Laurens, Greenwood and Spartanburg counties.
Rainfall amounts of 2 to 5 inches are possible, with the highest amounts near the Blue Ridge Escarpment.
"The heavy rain and very high rainfall rates could produce dangerous flash flooding across the area," the Weather Service said. "Streams and creeks are likely to rise quickly during heavy rain and flood nearby low-lying areas."


We've had a few weeks of slow activity due to Spring Break, but we're back with some more updates. Only one month left until SEAL Con!
Beckman Group 1 is testing their plate BHS-1-52, which they epoxied last week. The plate consists of ratios of 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, and 4:1 of the iron and aluminum nitrate solutions. Group 2 epoxied their plate (BHS-2-71-B), which consists of the bismuth nitrate solution and iron standard solution. The ratios they used are 1:12, 1:15, 4:3, and 5:3. They will be making the plate BHS-2-71-A, which also consists of the standard iron nitrate and bismuth solution. The ratios they are using are 1:1, 1:19, 1:18, and 2:1. Group 3 started to make a plate with iron standard and bismuth nitrate. The ratios they will be using are 1:2, 2:1, and 1:1.
Poly Group 1 epoxied the two plasma cleaned 0.1M Fe(NO3)3 plates and two plasma-cleaned cobalt acetate plates. They also spotted one 0.1M MnSO4 plate with 0.1M Fe(NO3)3 to see if layering the plates with Fe(NO3)3 before placing them in the kiln would make the spots less likely to spread. Finally, they layered 0.1 Fe(NO3)3 on one fired cobalt acetate plate and one fired plate that had both MnSO4 and cobalt acetate. There was less spreading on the fired plates, maybe because last time pushing the pipette all the way put too much Fe(NO3)3 solution on the spots? This time, they only pushed half way, and it worked out better.
Group 2 scanned Fe plates that were not treated with plasma. The results were pretty solid, but compared to the Fe plates treated with plasma these results were not as strong. Next time, they are planning to test the Co and Mn plates layered with Fe(NO3). They hope to have more data to show the benefits of plasma cleaning.
San Marino Blank Team tested the plate made last week. The overall goal was to make sure that trends from the first two trials are actually due to the material and not due to residue current/drift. Putting the same concentrations in rows and getting trends means it is actually due to material, not drift. Putting same concentrations in columns and getting trends in rows further verifies it is not due to drift. When you check the dark potential after applying a current, the SEAL kit checks whole plate's current (without light activation). When it checks spots with the LED light, it checks the whole current, combining the dark current and the light-induced current. If the dark current fluctuates between spots, you would not be able to tell if variability between spots is due to different photo-activities and changing dark currents. By changing the orientation of the spots to differ from the column testing of the SEAL Kit, you can reduce the variable of time between testing spots.
Green Team made a new copper and nickel plate and fired it at 450°F.


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P.C. Roberts: How The U.S. Government's Lies Become Truth
By Paul Craig Roberts, opednews.com, Sep 29, 2012
In my last column, "A Culture of Delusion," I wrote that "Americans live in a matrix of lies. Lies dominate every policy discussion, every political decision." This column will use two top news stories, Iranian nukes and Julian Assange, to illustrate how lies become "truth."
The western Presstitute media uses every lie to demonize the Iranian government. On September 28 in a fit of unmitigated ignorance, the UK rag, Mail Online, called the president of Iran a "dictator." The Iranian presidency is an office filled by popular election, and the authority of the office is subordinate to the ayatollahs. Assange is demonized alternatively as a rapist and a spy.
The western media and the US Congress comprise the two largest whorehouses in human history. One of their favorite lies is that the Iranian president, Ahmadinejad, wants to kill all the Jews. Watch this 6 minute, 42 second video of Ahmadinejad's meeting with Jewish religious leaders. Don't be put off by the title. Washington Blog is making a joke.
War: what the US does best and cares about least
When Washington sees a problem anywhere on the planet its version of a 'foreign policy' is to call in the US military
Tom Engelhardt for TomDispatch, part of the Guardian Comment network
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 15 September 2012
Pakistani protestors burn the US flag in response to US drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal region in February 2012. Photograph: S.S. MIRZA/AFP/Getty Images
It's pop-quiz time when it comes to the American way of war: three questions, torn from the latest news, just for you. Here's the first of them, and good luck!
Two weeks ago, 200 US Marines began armed operations in?
a) Afghanistan
b) Pakistan
c) Iran
d) Somalia
e) Yemen
f) Central Africa
g) Northern Mali
h) The Philippines
i) Guatemala
If you opted for any answer, "a" through "h," you took a reasonable shot at it. After all, there's an ongoing American war in Afghanistan and somewhere in the southern part of that country, 200 armed US Marines could well have been involved in an operation. In Pakistan, an undeclared, CIA-run air war has long been under way, and in the past there have been armed border crossings by US special operations forces as well as US piloted cross-border air strikes, but no Marines.
PA President Abbas ready to drop Oslo, Paris Protocol and security coordination with Israel
Editors remarks: President Abbas has played for long to the tunes of America and Israel even though he can't be blamed for the predicament he found himself in because he has been pushed around and deceived both by American Government and Israeli Zionists, who are united in their common goals to create Greater Israel, an aim which they pursue single-mindedly. The presence of PA or absence of it is not going to change much. The process of taking over the enclaves of the West Bank are in full swing and soon there will be only pockets of truncated Palestinian dwellings left surrounded by terrorising Zionist settlers throughout the West Bank. If Mr Abbas decides to close the Palestinian Authority then at least the illusion of the so-called Palestinian Government will disappear. That will enable an oppressed and subjugated people to take a realistic view of the situation and carry on the struggle of national liberation from the clutches of Israel and America. PA has been a dead horse; it is not able to move or move anything.
Nasir Khan, Editor
Middle East Monitor, Monday, 24 September 2012
Abbas expressed his deep anger at the demonstrators' slogans calling for him and his Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to resign.
Reliable Palestinian sources have revealed that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to drop the Oslo Accord, the Paris Protocol and security coordination with Israel. He made this momentous claim in a meeting of the PLO leadership in Ramallah. So keen was Abbas for the meeting to go ahead while the demonstrations against the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories were going on that he did not wait until he got back from a trip to India.
Abbas accused most of the PLO factions, especially Fatah, of "standing behind the demonstrations" which swept the West Bank recently in protest against the waves of prices rises; he refused to pin the blame solely on Hamas. He threatened to step down and make them go ahead with the legislative and presidential elections without him.
The sources quote one of the senior Fatah members who were present as saying that the meeting was "the most dangerous one" ever held by the leadership. They added that Abbas told those present at the meeting that "not only were the supporters of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad participating in the demonstrations, but also those who are sitting here at this table, the forefront of which are Fatah, the Popular and Democratic Fronts and the People's Party". Everyone, Abbas said, had operations rooms to stir the street "which is already festering", and to raise the pace of popular anger.
Report: "Counterproductive" US Drone Program "Terrorizes" Pakistan
Joint study by Stanford and NYU law schools casts doubt on the legality of drone strikes; Says secretive program fosters anti-American sentiment
– Common Dreams staff, September 25, 2012
US drones do not just kill 'terrorists' says new report. They kill innocent people, including women and children, and they sow deep and long-lasting instability. (U.S. Air Force/Lt Col Leslie Pratt/ Flickr)Rejecting the dominant narrative that insulates most Americans from the reality of the US drone program in Pakistan—a narrative that says drones are a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the US safer from "global terrorism" with minimal downsides—a new report by researchers at the Stanford and NYU schools of law says that the program itself is "terrorizing" and that its overall impact is "counterproductive" when it comes to addressing international law, security, and human rights.
The newly released report, Living Under Drones, follows nine months of intensive research—including two investigations in Pakistan, more than 130 interviews with victims, witnesses, and experts, and review of thousands of pages of documentation and media reporting—and presents evidence of the damaging and terrorizing effects of current US drone strike policy. The study provides new and firsthand testimony about the negative impacts the ongoing program is having on the civilians living under drones in Pakistan and seeks to foster a public debate about how to challenge the program and change its current course.
THE 42 COMMANDMENTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Thou shalt not kill, nor bid anyone kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery or rape.
Thou shalt not avenge thyself nor burn with rage.
Thou shalt not cause terror.
Thou shalt not assault anyone nor cause anyone pain.
Thou shalt not cause misery.
Thou shalt not do any harm to man or to animals.
Thou shalt not cause the shedding of tears.
Thou shalt not wrong the people nor bear them any evil intent.
Thou shalt not steal nor take that which does not belong to you.
Thou shalt not take more than thy fair share of food.
Thou shalt not damage the crops, the fields, or the trees.
Thou shalt not deprive anyone of what is rightfully theirs.
Thou shalt not bear false witness, nor support false allegations.
Thou shalt not lie, nor speak falsely to the hurt of another.
Thou shalt not use fiery words nor stir up any strife.
Thou shalt not speak or act deceitfully to the hurt of another.
Thou shalt not speak scornfully against others.
Thou shalt not eavesdrop.
Thou shalt not ignore the truth or words of righteousness.
Thou shalt not judge anyone hastily or harshly.
Thou shalt not disrespect sacred places.
Thou shalt cause no wrong to be done to any workers or prisoners.
XXIV.
Thou shalt not be angry without good reason.
Thou shalt not hinder the flow of running water.
Thou shalt not waste the running water.
Thou shalt not pollute the water or the land.
Thou shalt not take God's name in vain.
XXIX.
Thou shalt not despise nor anger God.
Thou shalt not steal from God.
XXXI.
Thou shalt not give excessive offerings nor less than what is due.
XXXII.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.
XXXIII.
Thou shalt not steal from nor disrespect the dead.
XXXIV.
Thou shalt remember and observe the appointed holy days.
XXXV.
Thou shalt not hold back the offerings due God.
XXXVI.
Thou shalt not interfere with sacred rites.
XXXVII.
Thou shalt not slaughter with evil intent any sacred animals.
XXXVIII.
Thou shalt not act with guile or insolence.
XXXIX.
Thou shalt not be unduly proud nor act with arrogance.
XL.
Thou shalt not magnify your condition beyond what is appropriate.
XLI.
Thou shalt do no less than your daily obligations require.
XLII.
Thou shalt obey the law and commit no treason.
The 42 Principles of Ma'at, the Goddess who personified the ideals of Truth and Righteousness, were known to all the ancient Egyptians. They have been rephrased here in Biblical Commandment form to make them more intelligible and familiar to moderns. In the original form they were preceded with "I have not" as in "I have not stolen." The Egyptians believed that when they died, their souls would be judged by these principles. Moses and the Israelites, who were originally Egyptians, would have been familiar with these principles, but after wandering for forty years they seem to have only remembered 8 of them (those highlighted in orange). Moses added three new non-secular commandments; the one about not honoring the other gods, the honoring of their parents, and the one that included their neighbor's wives and slaves as coveted chattel. The remarkable thing about the principles of Ma'at is not only how much more advanced they are in comparison with the Hebrew Commandments, but how most of them are strikingly relevant to this day.
Stephen Lendman: US Media War on Islam
Washington's war on Islam supported by media scoundrels.
By Stephen Lendman, opednews.com, Sep 21, 2012
America never treated Muslims respectfully. US media and Hollywood play lead roles. Jack Shaheen's book "Reel Bad Arabs : How Hollywood Vilifies a People" documented how American filmmakers slander them.
For decades, they've been fair game. From silent to more recent films, prejudicial attitudes were fostered. They still are regularly. They disparage Islam in contrast to manufactured notions of Western values, high-mindedness, and moral superiority.
Islamic tenets are ignored. The Koran teaches love, not hate; peace, not violence; charity, not selfishness; and tolerance, not terrorism.
Its five pillars include profession of faith, prayer five times daily, fasting during Ramadan, charity, and performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime for those able to afford it.
Nonetheless, Muslims are stereotypically portrayed as dangerous gun-toting terrorists. Hate messages repeat regularly. Fear is stoked. Imperial wars of aggression are called justifiable ones.
Perry Anderson: How India took possession of Kashmir
Extracts from:
Perry Anderson, After Nehru, LBR, Vol. 34 No. 15, 2 August 2012
This real achievement has, in what by now could be termed the Indian Ideology, been surcharged with claims to a largely imaginary status: the notion that the preservation by the Indian state of the unity of the country is a feat so exceptional as to be little short of a miracle, in the standard phrase. There is no basis for this particular vanity. A glance at the map of the post-colonial world is enough to show that, no matter how heterogeneous or artificial the boundaries of any given European colony may have been, they continue to exist today. Of the 52 countries in Africa, the vast majority arbitrary fabrications of rival imperialist powers, just one – Sudan – has failed to persist within the same frontiers as an independent state. In Asia, the same pattern has held, the separation of Singapore from Malaysia after two years of cohabitation not even a break with the colonial past, of Bangladesh from Pakistan enabled by external invasion. Such few sports of history aside, the motto of independence has invariably been: what empire has joined, let no man put asunder. In this general landscape, India represents not an exception, but the rule.
That rule has, in one state after another, been enforced with violence. In Africa, wars in Nigeria, Mali, the Western Sahara, Ethiopia, Congo, Angola; in South-East Asia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, Sri Lanka. Typically, military force deployed to preserve postcolonial unity has meant military government in one guise or another in society at large: state of emergency in the periphery, dictatorship at the centre. India has escaped the latter. But it has exhibited the former, with a vengeance. It is now 65 years since Congress seized the larger part of Kashmir, without title from the colonial power, though with vice-regal connivance, in the name of a forged document of accession from its feudal ruler, the assent of its leading politician and the pledge of a plebiscite to confirm the will of its people. Having secured the region, Nehru – the prime mover – made short work of all three. The maharajah was soon deposed, the promise of a referendum ditched. What of the politician, on whom now rested what claims of legitimacy for Indian possession remained?
Abdullah, the Lion of Kashmir as he enjoyed being styled, was a Muslim leader who, like Badshah Khan in the North-West Frontier Province, had been an ally of Congress in the years of struggle against the Raj, and become the most prominent opponent of the maharajah in the Valley of Kashmir. There his party, the National Conference, had adopted a secular platform in which local communists played some role, seeking independence for Kashmir as the 'Switzerland of Asia'. But when partition came, Abdullah made no case of this demand. For some years he had bonded emotionally with Nehru, and when fighting broke out in Kashmir in the autumn of 1947, he was flown out from Srinagar to Delhi by military aircraft and lodged in Nehru's house, where he took part in planning the Indian takeover, to which he was essential. Two days later, the maharajah – now safely repaired to Jammu – announced in a backdated letter to Mountbatten, drafted by his Indian minders, that he would install Abdullah as his prime minister.
For the next five years, Abdullah ruled the Valley of Kashmir and Jammu under the shield of the Indian army, with no authority other than his reluctant appointment by a feudatory he despised and Delhi soon discarded. At the outset, Nehru believed his friend's popularity capable of carrying all before it. When subsequent intelligence indicated otherwise, talk of a plebiscite to ratify it ceased. Abdullah enjoyed genuine support in his domain, but how wide it was, or how deep, was not something Congress was prepared to bank on. Nor, it soon became clear, was Abdullah himself willing to put it to the test. No doubt acutely aware that Badshah Khan, with a much stronger popular base, had lost just such a referendum in the North-West Frontier Province, he rejected any idea of one. No elections were held until 1951, when voters were finally summoned to the polls for a Constituent Assembly. Less than 5 per cent of the nominal electorate cast a ballot, but otherwise the results could not have been improved in Paraguay or Bulgaria. The National Conference and its clients won all 75 seats – 73 of them without a contest. A year later Abdullah announced the end of the Dogra dynasty and an agreement with Nehru that reserved special rights for Kashmir and Jammu, limiting the powers of the centre, within the Indian Union. But no constitution emerged, and not even the maharajah's son, regent since 1949, was removed, instead simply becoming head of state.
By now, however, Delhi was becoming uneasy about the regime it had set up in Srinagar. In power, Abdullah's main achievement had been an agrarian reform putting to shame Congress's record of inaction on the land. But its political condition of possibility was confessional: the expropriated landlords were Hindu, the peasants who benefited Muslim. The National Conference could proclaim itself secular, but its policies on the land and in government employment catered to the interests of its base, which had always been in Muslim-majority areas, above all the Valley of Kashmir. Jammu, which after ethnic cleansing by Dogra forces in 1947 now had a Hindu majority, was on the receiving end of Abdullah's system, subjected to an unfamiliar repression. Enraged by this reversal, the newly founded Jana Sangh in India joined forces with the local Hindu party, the Praja Parishad, in a violent campaign against Abdullah, who was charged with heading not only a communal Muslim but a communist regime in Srinagar. In the summer of 1953, the Indian leader of this agitation, S.P. Mookerjee, was arrested crossing the border into Jammu, and promptly expired in a Kashmiri jail.
This was too much for Delhi. Mookerjee had, after all, been Nehru's confederate in not dissimilar Hindu agitation to lock down the partition of Bengal, and was rewarded with a cabinet post. Although since then he had been an opponent of the Congress regime, he was still a member in reasonably good standing of the Indian political establishment. Abdullah, moreover, was now suspected of recidivist hankering for an independent Kashmir. The Intelligence Bureau had little difficulty convincing Nehru that he had become a liability, and overnight he was dismissed by the stripling heir to the Dogra throne he had so complacently made head of state, and thrown into an Indian jail on charges of sedition. His one-time friend behind bars, Nehru installed the next notable down in the National Conference, Bakshi Gulam Mohammed, in his place. Brutal and corrupt, Bakshi's regime – widely known as BBC: the Bakshi Brothers Corporation – depended entirely on the Indian security apparatus. After ten years, in which his main achievement was to do away with any pretence that Kashmir was other than 'an integral part of the Union of India', Bakshi's reputation had become a liability to Delhi, and he was summarily ousted in turn, to be replaced after a short interval by another National Conference puppet, this time a renegade communist, G.M. Sadiq, whose no less repressive regime proceeded to wind up the party altogether, dissolving it into Congress.
Abdullah, meanwhile, sat in an Indian prison for 12 years, eventually on charges of treason, with two brief intermissions in 1958 and 1964. During the second of these, he held talks with Nehru in Delhi and Ayub Khan in Rawalpindi, just before Nehru died, but was then rearrested for having had the temerity to meet Zhou Enlai in Algiers. A troubled Nehru had supposedly been willing to contemplate some loosening of the Indian grip on the Valley; much sentimentality has been expended on this lost opportunity for a better settlement in Kashmir, tragically frustrated by Nehru's death. But the reality is that Nehru, having seized Kashmir by force in 1947, had rapidly discovered that Abdullah and his party were neither as popular nor as secular as he had imagined, and that he could hold his prey only by an indefinite military occupation with a façade of collaborators, each less satisfactory than the last. The ease with which the National Conference was manipulated to Indian ends, as Abdullah was discarded for Bakshi, and Bakshi for Sadiq, made it clear how relatively shallow an organisation it had, despite appearances, always been. By the end of his life, Nehru would have liked a more presentable fig-leaf for Indian rule, but that he had any intention of allowing free expression of the popular will in Kashmir can be excluded: he could never afford to do so. He had shown no compunction in incarcerating on trumped-up charges the ostensible embodiment of the ultimate legitimacy of Indian conquest of the region, and no hesitation in presiding over subcontracted tyrannies of whose nature he was well aware. When an anguished admirer from Jammu pleaded with him not to do so, he replied that the national interest was more important than democracy: 'We have gambled on the international stage on Kashmir, and we cannot afford to lose. At the moment we are there at the point of a bayonet. Till things improve, democracy and morality can wait.' Sixty years later the bayonets are still there, democracy nowhere in sight.
Pakistan: Center of the Grand Chessboard
Luke Rudkowski, uruknet.info, September 15, 2012
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle takes flight on a targeted mission from Shamsi Airfield, an airstrip subleased to the United States by the UAE from inside the southwest region of Pakistan. At the same time a farmer awakes, in northwest Pakistan, happy; a husband and father of four with his youngest daughter just married the day before. After reaching a service ceiling of 25,000 ft. and cruising speed of 103 mph the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator begins descending to its destination. Hamid Abdullah, a refugee I met during my travels to the northwest border region, was a hardworking man, kind, loving and very caring of his family, finds his pantry empty and leaves for the market to collect groceries. The Predator drone now in range locks on the target. Upon reaching the Bazaar, Abdullah, from behind him he hears a thundering explosion. After firing an AGM-114 Hellfire missile the drone begins to circumnavigate. As a concerned human, the Pakistani man, naturally inclined, runs to see what happened and to perhaps provide aid to anyone hurt. He approaches, and with crushing and crippling realization, his entire home in total destruction. The world of happiness, his family, lay dead in the rubble, wrenching vibrations send him to his knees. An hour later the UAV locks in the second Hellfire missile as the operator from Creech Air force Base in Nevada reaches to quench his thirst from a freshly refilled ice tea. In the tribal region of Pakistan first responders, neighbors, other civilians and business owners run with haste to pull out the dead and injured. As temporary funeral preparations are made a $68,000 guided weapons system developed by Lockheed Martin strikes the same location inciting terror on a new level, killing the entire procession of emergency services, tripling the original death toll of, not just innocent civilians, but honorable servicemen duty bound by the code of humanity.
Perry Anderson: Kashmir under Indian military occupation
Extracts from: Perry Anderson, After Nehru,
London Review of Books, Vol. 34 No, 15, 2 August 2012
At the last of the Trimurti values, dissent comes close to vanishing altogether. Democracy may be imperfect, secularity ambiguous, but unity – of the nation and the land belonging to it – has become virtually untouchable. Here the heritage of the past has had its own weight. Hindu culture, exceptionally rich in epics and metaphysics, was exceptionally poor in history, a branch of knowledge radically devalued by the doctrines of karma, for which any given temporal existence on earth was no more than a fleeting episode in the moral cycle of the soul. No major chronicles appear till the 12th century, over a millennium later than Herodotus or Sima Qian, and no histoire raisonnée as a cumulative body of writing ever emerged. Gandhi's dictum dismissing the worth of any memory of the past – 'history is an interruption of nature' – is a famous modern expression of this outlook. In such a historiographic vacuum, when the nationalist movement arose, legend encountered no barrier. 'In an overwhelmingly religious society,' one subcontinental scholar has written, 'even the most clear-sighted leaders have found it impossible to distinguish romanticism from history and the latter from mythology.' It follows that 'if the idea of India is suffused with religious and mythical meanings, so is the territory it covers,' Nehru explaining to Zhou Enlai that the Mahabharata entitled him to the McMahon Line. Today the cult of Indian unity has typically worked itself free from such mystical origins, territory as such becoming the bond unifying the nation, regardless of any religious – let alone ethnic or cultural – trappings. Meghnad Desai's The Rediscovery of India is recent example, in many ways an unusually free-spirited work that dismantles not a few nationalist myths, only to end with the purest hypostasisation of another, for which the 'one element central to the narrative of nationhood' becomes simply 'territorial integrity', under whose idyllic shelter 'all Indians, as individuals, are willing to co-exist under the same legal and constitutional system,' 'all regions have agreed to be part of the union,' and 'all take part in the vibrant democratic process.'
The reality is otherwise. In these pages, there should be little need for any reminder of the fate of Kashmir, under the longest military occupation in the world. At its height, in the sixty years since it was taken by India, some 400,000 troops have been deployed to hold down a Valley population of five million – a far higher ratio of repression than in Palestine or Tibet. Demonstrations, strikes, riots, guerrillas, risings urban and rural, have all been beaten down with armed force. In this 'valley of scorpions', declared Jagmohan – proconsul for Nehru's daughter in Kashmir – 'the bullet is the only solution.' The death toll, at a low reckoning, would be equivalent to the killing of four million people, were it India – more than double that, if higher estimates are accurate. Held fast by Nehru to prove that India was a secular state, Kashmir has demonstrated the exact opposite: a confessional expansionism. Today, the bureaucracy that rules it under military command contains scarcely a Muslim, and jobs in it can be openly advertised for Hindus only. In what was supposed to be the showcase of India's tolerant multiculturalism, ethnic cleansing has reduced Muslims, once a majority, to a third of the population of Jammu, and Hindu Pandits to a mere handful in the Valley.
How is this landscape received by the Indian intelligentsia? In late 2010, readers of the Indian press could find a headline 'Nobel Laureate takes India to task for tolerating tyranny.' Where would that be? Below, Amartya Sen uttered a plangent cry. 'As a loyal Indian citizen,' he exclaimed, 'it breaks my heart to see the prime minister of my democratic country – and one of the most humane and sympathetic political leaders in the world – engaged in welcoming the butchers of Myanmar and photographed in a state of cordial proximity.' Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home. That the democracy of his country and the humanity of his leader preside over an indurated tyranny, replete with torture and murder, within what they claim as their national borders, need not ruffle a loyal Indian citizen. If we turn to Sen's book The Argumentative Indian, we find, in a footnote: 'The Kashmir issue certainly demands political attention on its own (I am not taking up that thorny question here).' Nor, we might infer from that delicate parenthesis, anywhere else either. Nobel prizes are rarely badges of political courage – some of infamy – so there is little reason for surprise at a silence that, in one form or another, is so common among Indian intellectuals.
Brazen celebration of India's goodwill in Kashmir, its peace troubled only by terrorists infiltrated from Pakistan, is a staple of the media more than the academy. There, discreet allusion to 'human rights abuses' that have marred the centre's performance are quite acceptable, excesses that any decent person must deplore. But any talk of self-determination is another matter, garlic to the vampire. More than ordinary intellectual conformism is at work here. To break ranks on India's claim to Kashmir is to risk not only popular hysteria but legal repression, as Arundhati Roy – brave enough to speak of freedom for Kashmir – bears witness: to question the territorial integrity of the union is a crime punishable at law. The same degree of pressure does not obtain outside the country, but Indian intellectuals abroad have not made notably better use of their greater freedom of expression. There the leading production comes from Sumantra Bose. Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace does not embellish the record of Indian rule, and covers in some detail the insurgencies which broke out against it in the 1990s, the extent of the assistance they received from Pakistan, and the way they were put down.
Descriptively, there is little it avoids. Prescriptively, however, it simply underwrites the status quo, on the grounds that the confessional and ethnic pattern in the region is now too complicated for self-determination to be applicable, and anyway India is not going to permit any such thing, so why not settle for the existing Line of Control, naturally assorted with appropriate placebos and human rights? Thus, on the one hand, 'the myth of freely and voluntarily given consent to Indian sovereignty is exploded by the appalling record of New Delhi-instigated subversion of democratic procedures and institutions and abuse of democratic rights in IJK over fifty years.' But, on the other hand – immediately following, on the same page – 'that India's dismissal of the plebiscite [promised to the UN in 1947] is fundamentally opportunistic does not detract from the reality that after more than fifty years of conflict [note the way the description of the fifty years has changed in the space of two sentences], the plebiscite is indeed an obsolete idea.' Why so? 'Self-determination is untenable given realpolitik, the entrenched interests of states, and the internal social and political diversity of IJK and of J&K as a whole.' Even an independent Kashmir, let alone one that opted for Pakistan, 'would be seen as an intolerable loss of territorial integrity and sovereignty by Indian state elites and the vast majority of the Indian public'. Upshot? 'Erasing or redrawing the Line of Control in Kashmir is neither feasible nor desirable.' We hold what we have: 'The de facto Indian and Pakistani sovereignties over their respective areas of Kashmir cannot, should not and need not be changed.'
No Indian general could put it better. Bose, who worked as an understrapper for Strobe Talbott (second in command at the US State Department in the era when Clinton was congratulating Russia on the 'liberation' of Grozny, and 'intimately involved in diplomacy on the South Asian subcontinent'), situates his solution for Kashmir in a constructive wider vision, in which 'India's maturity and confidence as the world's largest and most diverse democracy' and 'well-founded aspiration to be an economic and political player of global stature' should be able to find the right partner across the border in a future 'relatively moderate Pakistan which happens to be strongly influenced by its relationship with the United States'. If only there were a Sadat or Mubarak in Islamabad, Kashmir could enjoy the blessings of another Oslo, and Delhi the good conscience of Tel Aviv.
Johan Galtung: The Arab Spring and the Image of Islam
by Johan Galtung, 11 Jun 2012 – TRANSCEND Media Service
Talk at the Advanced Studies Research Center, Brussels, Belgium
The multi-season Arab Spring is the third anti-imperialist Arab revolt in less than a century: against the Ottoman empire, the Western Italian-French-English empire, and now the US-Israel empire. The empires hit back. The Ottomans were weak, but England-France-Israel even invaded Egypt in 29 October 1956–in the shadow of the Hungarian revolt against the Soviet empire that crumbled 23-25 years later. And now it is the turn o USA-Israel to try to maintain an illegitimate structure.
So much for the background. In the foreground is class, pitting the powerless at the bottom against the powerful at the top. Wealth flows upward accelerated by corruption; military, police and secret police forces protect the top against revolts; decision-making is by dictatorships; all of this that used to be justified by the fight against communism is now hitched on to fight against islamism.
Needless to say, we can have corrupt, brutal dictatorships in Arab countries without any imperial backing. Like in former colonies –Libya-Palestine-Iraq-Lebanon-Syria–where borders were drawn regardless of inner and outer fault-lines, trusting that by sheer force they could contain such "indigenous, tribal" conflicts. Their successors followed in their tracks, with dictatorship and force. But less so for Egypt and Tunisia: they were old, established countries.


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How to invest in wind energy
What is the best location for wind energy?
More: The best places for wind farms are in coastal areas, at the tops of rounded hills, open plains and gaps in mountains – places where the wind is strong and reliable. Some are offshore. To be worthwhile, you need an average wind speed of around 25 km/h.
How is wind energy acquired?
When the wind blows past a wind turbine, its blades capture the wind's kinetic energy and rotate, turning it into mechanical energy. This rotation turns an internal shaft connected to a gearbox, which increases the speed of rotation by a factor of 100. That spins a generator that produces electricity.
How can I invest in clean energy?
The most popular alternative energy ETFs include:
Guggenheim Solar ETF (TAN)
Invesco WilderHill Clean Energy Portfolio ETF (PBW)
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Why is wind power the best?
Wind energy doesn't pollute the air like power plants that rely on combustion of fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas. Wind turbines don't produce atmospheric emissions that cause acid rain or greenhouse gasses. … Wind energy relies on the renewable power of the wind, which can't be used up.
What are 3 disadvantages of wind energy?
Disadvantages of Wind Energy
Unpredictable. Perhaps the biggest disadvantage to wind energy is that it cannot be produced consistently. …
Threat to wildlife. Wind energy does not cause environmental problems through greenhouse gas emissions, however, turbines can have an impact on wildlife. …
Noise. …
Looks. …
Location limitations.
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Are windmills cost efficient?
Advantages of Wind Power. Wind power is cost-effective. … Because the electricity from wind farms is sold at a fixed price over a long period of time (e.g. 20+ years) and its fuel is free, wind energy mitigates the price uncertainty that fuel costs add to traditional sources of energy.
What are examples of wind energy?
When mechanical energy enhances a unit by harnessing wind power, it may be called a windmill, wind pump, or wind charger. Wind energy can be used for anything from power on boats, battery charging, or electricity to be used commercially.
Where is wind energy found?
Locations of U.S. wind power projects
The five states with the most electricity generation from wind in 2019 were Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas, and California. These states combined produced nearly 60% of total U.S. wind electricity generation in 2019.
What type of energy is wind energy?
Wind is used to produce electricity using the kinetic energy created by air in motion. This is transformed into electrical energy using wind turbines or wind energy conversion systems.
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Decide how you want to invest in stocks.
Open an investing account.
Know the difference between stocks and stock mutual funds.
Set a budget for your stock investment.
Focus on the long-term.
Manage your stock portfolio.
FAQs about how to invest in stocks.
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Kinder Morgan (KMI)
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Why wind power is bad?
Electricity from wind energy must be stored (i.e. batteries). Wind turbines are a potential threat to wildlife such as birds and bats. Deforestation to set up a wind farm creates an environmental impact. Noise is a complaint with many wind farms that are close to communities.
Why are wind turbines bad?
There also some *cons* when it comes to wind energy:
Wind turbines are a potential threat to wildlife such as birds and bats. Deforestation to set up a wind farm creates an environmental impact. Noise is a complaint with many wind farms that are close to communities. Some people find wind farms to be unsightly.
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Q: running python script java jar spring boot I have a spring boot application that I have created using eclipse. Under the src/main/resources, I created a scripts folder and have put a simple python script that is invoked by java and output collected and dumped in rest response.
When I run the application using eclipse, the script src/main/resources/scripts/my_name.py runs when spring rest handler invokves it. The script is very simple and just prints a string on bash which is collected by java and sent in the rest response.
When I create a jar using run as and target as build, the jar gets created. When I run the jar from under directory where jar is created and run it from the root of the project as java -jar ./target/demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar it works.
But when I say copy the same jar to /tmp/mydemo and run it, the python script is either not running or sth but the string is never shown. What could be the issue here?


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OSTI.GOV Journal Article: Electric field induced localization phenomena in a ladder network with superlattice configuration: Effect of backbone environment
Title: Electric field induced localization phenomena in a ladder network with superlattice configuration: Effect of backbone environment
Electric field induced localization properties of a tight-binding ladder network in presence of backbone sites are investigated. Based on Green's function formalism we numerically calculate two-terminal transport together with density of states for different arrangements of atomic sites in the ladder and its backbone. Our results lead to a possibility of getting multiple mobility edges which essentially plays a switching action between a completely opaque to fully or partly conducting region upon the variation of system Fermi energy, and thus, support in fabricating mesoscopic or DNA-based switching devices.
Dutta, Paramita; Karmakar, S. N. [1]; Maiti, Santanu K., E-mail: santanu.maiti@isical.ac.in [2]
Condensed Matter Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sector-I, Block-AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata-700 064 (India)
Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Kolkata-700 108 (India)
AIP Advances
Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 9; Other Information: (c) 2014 Author(s); Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 2158-3226
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; DENSITY; DNA; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GREEN FUNCTION; SUPERLATTICES
Dutta, Paramita, Karmakar, S. N., and Maiti, Santanu K., E-mail: santanu.maiti@isical.ac.in. Electric field induced localization phenomena in a ladder network with superlattice configuration: Effect of backbone environment. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4896281.
Dutta, Paramita, Karmakar, S. N., & Maiti, Santanu K., E-mail: santanu.maiti@isical.ac.in. Electric field induced localization phenomena in a ladder network with superlattice configuration: Effect of backbone environment. United States. doi:10.1063/1.4896281.
Dutta, Paramita, Karmakar, S. N., and Maiti, Santanu K., E-mail: santanu.maiti@isical.ac.in. Mon . "Electric field induced localization phenomena in a ladder network with superlattice configuration: Effect of backbone environment". United States. doi:10.1063/1.4896281.
title = {Electric field induced localization phenomena in a ladder network with superlattice configuration: Effect of backbone environment},
author = {Dutta, Paramita and Karmakar, S. N. and Maiti, Santanu K., E-mail: santanu.maiti@isical.ac.in},
abstractNote = {Electric field induced localization properties of a tight-binding ladder network in presence of backbone sites are investigated. Based on Green's function formalism we numerically calculate two-terminal transport together with density of states for different arrangements of atomic sites in the ladder and its backbone. Our results lead to a possibility of getting multiple mobility edges which essentially plays a switching action between a completely opaque to fully or partly conducting region upon the variation of system Fermi energy, and thus, support in fabricating mesoscopic or DNA-based switching devices.},
journal = {AIP Advances},
volume = 4,
Localization in one-dimensional lattices with non-nearest-neighbor hopping: Generalized Anderson and Aubry-Andre models
Journal Article Biddle, J. ; Priour, D. J. Jr. ; Wang, B. ; ... - Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
We study the quantum localization phenomena of noninteracting particles in one-dimensional lattices based on tight-binding models with various forms of hopping terms beyond the nearest neighbor, which are generalizations of the famous Aubry-Andre and noninteracting Anderson models. For the case with deterministic disordered potential induced by a secondary incommensurate lattice (i.e., the Aubry-Andre model), we identify a class of self-dual models, for which the boundary between localized and extended eigenstates are determined analytically by employing a generalized Aubry-Andre transformation. We also numerically investigate the localization properties of nondual models with next-nearest-neighbor hopping, Gaussian, and power-law decay hopping terms. We findmore » that even for these nondual models, the numerically obtained mobility edges can be well approximated by the analytically obtained condition for localization transition in the self-dual models, as long as the decay of the hopping rate with respect to distance is sufficiently fast. For the disordered potential with genuinely random character, we examine scenarios with next-nearest-neighbor hopping, exponential, Gaussian, and power-law decay hopping terms numerically. We find that the higher-order hopping terms can remove the symmetry in the localization length about the energy band center compared to the Anderson model. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that for the power-law decay case, there exists a critical exponent below which mobility edges can be found. Our theoretical results could, in principle, be directly tested in shallow atomic optical lattice systems enabling non-nearest-neighbor hopping.« less
DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVB.83.075105
Atomically Defined Edge-Doping of Graphene Nanoribbons for Mesoscale Electronics
Technical Report Fischer, Felix ; Haberer, Danny ; Marangoni, Tomas ; ...
The outstanding transformative potential of graphene, an infinite two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms tightly packed into a honeycomb lattice, has been recognized mostly due to its exceptionally high electric conductivity, thermal conductivity, and tensile strength. These undeniably very desirable properties, however, represent only a very small facet of the true potential of all-sp2 carbon materials and its promise to revolutionize the field of molecular electronics. Graphene's most unusual characteristics emerge when the infinite macroscopic sheet is scaled down to nanometer dimensions. The exploration, realization, and implementation of these truly exotic magnetic and electronic properties rely on the development of innovativemore » synthetic strategies that provide atomically precise control over the self-assembly of mesoscale objects. While traditional device architectures based on inorganic semiconductors have been fabricated using a top-down approach, we pursued a diametrically opposite strategy. Our design of a new generation of high-performance electronic materials relies on a modular bottom-up strategy. This highly multidisciplinary research program has been rooted in the synthesis of functional organic materials with precisely defined properties, their controlled assembly into hierarchical structures, and the evaluation of their performance at the molecular and the macroscopic scale. A part of this research program we have developed the chemical tools required to synthesize and to fine-tune the physical properties of graphene nanoribbons (GNR) with atomic precision. We further demonstrated that the innovative techniques and the expanded knowledge can be used to rationally tailor desired physical properties and function into nanometer-scale carbon-based electronic devices; e.g. transistors as logic gates in computing, data storage media based on electrically gated spin valves, or molecular amplifiers, all functionally integrated in atomically defined GNRs. • We demonstrated the design and experimental realization of a rationally engineered graphene nanoribbon superlattice that hosts a 1D array of symmetry-protected topological states. • We developed a hierarchical bottom-up fabrication strategy for graphene nanoribbons that preferentially exhibit a single heterojunction interface rather than a random statistical sequence of junctions along the ribbon. • We reported the bottom-up synthesis of a series of atomically precise graphene nanoribbons featuring trigonal planar heteroatom dopants (nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur) along the edges that induce a narrowing of the intrinsic band gap by ~0.2–0.3 eV per dopant atom. • We reported the bottom-up synthesis of a graphene nanoribbon heterostructure featuring a highly tunable porphyrin quantum dot embedded at the center of a solution processable graphene nanoribbon. • We reported a new technique for fabricating bottom-up graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions through a late-stage chemical transformation that results in atomically sharp heterojunction structures from a single precursor. • We demonstrated the intrinsic performance enhancement of a composite material comprised of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) embedded in a bottom-up synthesized graphene nanoribbon matrix for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2. • We developed a scalable, solution-based approach toward the synthesis of an exotic class of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that exhibit unusual electronic and magnetic properties in the ground state. • We reported the bottom-up synthesis and characterization of atomically-defined graphene nanoribbons featuring a regioregular pattern of group III dopant atoms (boron) along the backbone of the ribbon.« less
The tight junction protein ZO-2 and Janus kinase 1 mediate intercellular communications in vascular smooth muscle cells
Journal Article Tkachuk, Natalia ; Tkachuk, Sergey ; Patecki, Margret ; ... - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Highlights: {yields} The tight junction protein ZO-2 associates with Jak1 in vascular smooth muscle cells via ZO-2 N-terminal fragment. {yields} Jak1 mediates ZO-2 tyrosine phosphorylation and ZO-2 localization to the sites of homotypic intercellular contacts. {yields} The urokinase receptor uPAR regulates ZO-2/Jak1 functional association. {yields} The ZO-2/Jak1/uPAR signaling complex is required for vascular smooth muscle cells functional network formation. -- Abstract: Recent evidence points to a multifunctional role of ZO-2, the tight junction protein of the MAGUK (membrane-associated guanylate kinase-like) family. Though ZO-2 has been found in cell types lacking tight junction structures, such as vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC),more » little is known about ZO-2 function in these cells. We provide evidence that ZO-2 mediates specific homotypic cell-to-cell contacts between VSMC. Using mass spectrometry we found that ZO-2 is associated with the non-receptor tyrosine kinase Jak1. By generating specific ZO-2 constructs we further found that the N-terminal fragment of ZO-2 molecule is responsible for this interaction. Adenovirus-based expression of Jak1 inactive mutant demonstrated that Jak1 mediates ZO-2 tyrosine phosphorylation. By means of RNA silencing, expression of Jak1 mutant form and fluorescently labeled ZO-2 fusion protein we further specified that active Jak1, but not Jak1 inactive mutant, mediates ZO-2 localization to the sites of intercellular contacts. We identified the urokinase receptor uPAR as a pre-requisite for these cellular events. Functional requirement of the revealed signaling complex for VSMC network formation was confirmed in experiments using Matrigel and in contraction assay. Our findings imply involvement of the ZO-2 tight junction independent signaling complex containing Jak1 and uPAR in VSMC intercellular communications. This mechanism may contribute to vascular remodeling in occlusive cardiovascular diseases and in arteriogenesis.« less
DOI: 10.1016/J.BBRC.2011.06.017
Irradiation-induced formation of metastable phases: A master-equation approach
Journal Article Bellon, P. ; Martin, G. - Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter; (United States)
We propose a new formalism, based on a master equation, for elaborating criteria of phase stability under irradiation. This technique is applied to the order-disorder transition in Ni/sub 4/Mo, where an irradiation-induced inversion of the respective stability of two ordered states has been reported, as well as a temperature domain where bistability is observed. The technique consists in describing the time evolution of the configuration of the system at the atomistic level and writing a master equation for the probability distribution of configurations defined at a mesoscopic level. The transition probabilities of the former are expressed in terms of themore » atomic jump frequencies which enter the atomistic description, to a level of sophistication compatible with a simple mean-field description of the thermodynamics of the system outside irradiation. The identity between the thermodynamical equilibrium states and fluctuations on the one hand and the dynamical steady states outside irradiation on the other hand is thus built into the formalism. Irradiation effects are then introduced by enhancing the overall atomic mobility (defect supersaturation) and by adding to the atomic exchange frequencies a ballistic contribution which forces mixing whatever the local configuration (infinite-temperature dynamics). The same formal expression for the probability of the various dynamical steady states is obtained, but with some potential replacing the free energy. The former has no simple intuitive meaning but may be evaluated numerically. The probabilities of various steady-state configurations can then be assessed. When applied to Ni/sub 4/Mo under high-energy-electron irradiation, the technique fully reproduces the sequence of behaviors which has been observed experimentally in the whole irradiation temperature range.« less
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.38.2570
DNA Extraction by Isotachophoresis in a Microfluidic Channel
Technical Report Stephenson, S J
Biological assays have many applications. For example, forensics personnel and medical professionals use these tests to diagnose diseases and track their progression or identify pathogens and the host response to them. One limitation of these tests, however, is that most of them target only one piece of the sample - such as bacterial DNA - and other components (e.g. host genomic DNA) get in the way, even though they may be useful for different tests. To address this problem, it would be useful to extract several different substances from a complex biological sample - such as blood - in anmore » inexpensive and efficient manner. This summer, I worked with Maxim Shusteff at Lawrence Livermore National Lab on the Rapid Automated Sample Prep project. The goal of the project is to solve the aforementioned problem by creating a system that uses a series of different extraction methods to extract cells, bacteria, and DNA from a complex biological sample. Biological assays can then be run on purified output samples. In this device, an operator could input a complex sample such as blood or saliva, and would receive separate outputs of cells, bacteria, viruses, and DNA. I had the opportunity to work this summer with isotachophoresis (ITP), a technique that can be used to extract nucleic acids from a sample. This technique is intended to be the last stage of the purification device. Isotachophoresis separates particles based on different electrophoretic mobilities. This technique is convenient for out application because free solution DNA mobility is approximately equal for DNA longer than 300 base pairs in length. The sample of interest - in our case DNA - is fed into the chip with streams of leading electrolyte (LE) and trailing electrolyte (TE). When an electric field is applied, the species migrate based on their electrophoretic mobilities. Because the ions in the leading electrolyte have a high electrophoretic mobility, they race ahead of the slower sample and trailing electrolyte ions. Conversely, the trailing electrolyte ions have a slow electrophoretic mobility, so they lag behind the sample, thus trapping the species of interest between the LE and TE streams. In a typical isotachophoresis configuration, the electric field is applied in a direction parallel to the direction of flow. The species then form bands that stretch across the width of the channel. A major limitation of that approach is that only a finite amount of sample can be processed at once, and the sample must be processed in batches. For our purposes, a form of free-flow isotachophoresis is more convenient, where the DNA forms a band parallel to the edges of the channel. To achieve this, in our chip, the electric field is applied transversely. This creates a force perpendicular to the direction of flow, which causes the different ions to migrate across the flow direction. Because the mobility of the DNA is between the mobility of the leading and the trailing electrolyte, the DNA is focused in a tight band near the center of the channel. The stream of DNA can then be directed to a different output to produce a highly concentrated outlet stream without batch processing. One hurdle that must be overcome for successful ITP is isolating the electrochemical reactions that result from the application of high voltage for the actual process of isotachophoresis. The electrochemical reactions that occur around metal electrodes produce bubbles and pH changes that are detrimental to successful ITP. The design of the chips we use incorporates polyacrylamide gels to serve as electrodes along the central channel. For our design, the metal electrodes are located away from the chip, and high conductivity buffer streams carry the potential to the chip, functioning as a 'liquid electrode.' The stream then runs alongside a gel barrier. The gel electrode permits ion transfer while simultaneously isolating the separation chamber from any contaminants in the outer, 'liquid electrode' streams. The difference in potential from one side of the chip to the other creates an electric field. This field traverses the inner, separation channel, containing the leading electrolyte, the trailing electrolyte, and the sample of interest (DNA). To increase the ease of use of the chips, a newer chip design has been fabricated. This design has wire electrodes integrated on the chip, rather than elsewhere. To keep the pH changes and bubbling isolated from the separation channel, the chip contains deeper wells near the electrodes so that the flowing buffer can wash away any gases that form around the electrode. This design is significantly more compact because it eliminates the cumbersome electrode boxes. Eliminating the electrode boxes also decreases the required voltage, making the experiments safer. This happens because when the 'liquid electrode' streams travel through small diameter tubing, they lose much of their voltage due to the electrical resistance of the fluid in the tubing.« less


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Arthur Elgort: The Big Picture
Christy Turlington and Mikahil Baryshnikov, Swan Prince, French VOGUE, 1986
101.6 × 76.2 cm
Larger sizes may be available upon request.
Signed by the photographer
Vogue photographer Arthur Elgort made his mark in 1971 when his portfolio of black-and-white pictures of a model playing with a dog ran in the British version of the magazine, and something new was injected into fashion photography: movement. This snapshot aesthetic has characterized his work since the beginning of his career and garnered him acclaim for bringing buoyancy, lightness, and naturalism into fashion and advertising images. Trained as a painter, he switched to photography to feed his need for human company. In addition to shooting the world's top models and celebrities, he has gone backstage at the New York City Ballet and jazz clubs to capture dancers and musicians. Elgort attributes his improvisatory, active approach to his lifelong passion for jazz and ballet, claiming, "You can take a picture or you can make a picture. I much prefer the latter."
Stella Diving, Watermill, NY, Vogue, 1995
Peter Fetterman Gallery
Kate Moss, Vogue Italia, 1992
Atlas Gallery
Kate Moss, Los Angeles, CA, Vogue, 1995
Kate Moss on the Elephant, British Vogue, 1993
Holden Luntz Gallery
Jeny Howorth, Rome, Italian Vogue, 1989
Kate Moss at Café Lipp, Paris, Vogue Italia, 1993
Christy Turlington, New Orleans, British Vogue, 1990
Nadja Crossing Park Ave., New York, American Vogue, 1995
Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington, Italian Vogue, 1989
Hollie-‐ May Saker, Watermill, NY, Dutch Vogue, 2015
Isabelle Townsend, Miami Beach, French Vogue, 1987
Karlie Kloss, Atlantic Beach, NY, Vogue, 2012
Helena Christensen, New Orleans, LA, British Vogue, 1990
Coco Rocha, New York City, Vogue Japan, 2008
Kate Moss in Los Angeles, CA, Vogue, 1995
Kate Moss at Cafe Lipp, Paris, Vogue Italia, 1993
Christy Turlington at La Coupole, Paris, British Vogue, 1988
Other works from Arthur Elgort: The Big Picture
Shaun Casey, Harper's Bazaar Italy, 1978
Konstantin, Irina & Christy, Leningrad, 1990
Gia, Fire Island, New York, 1980
Christy Turlington, New Orleans, 1990
Amphitheater, Taormina, Sicily, 1989
Christy Turlington, New York, 1989
Lopatkina, Russian VOGUE, 1999
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, New York, 1992
Other works by Arthur Elgort
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, New York, 1981
Kate Moss, Vogue, , 1995
Nadja Auermann in Ireland, Vogue, 1993
Gia, Barbados, 1981
Kate Moss at Café Lipp in Paris, VOGUE Italia, 1993
Georgina Jumping Nude, British Vogue, 1995
Fire Island, 1976
Other works from Staley-Wise Gallery
Dogs sleeps near St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia, 1993
Denis Piel
Rosemary McGrotha, Donna Karan, New York, 1987
Raymond Voinquel
Male Nude, ca. 1950
LS Ranches, Montello, Nevada, 1982
Carmen Kass, Death Valley, California, 2000
Steve McQueen sleeping in the back of his pick up truck, California, 1963
Look Down: Simone, Harper's Bazaar, 1960
Marilyn Monroe: From the Last Sitting (In Bed, Leg Up), 1962
Figures in Nature
Priscilla Rattazzi
Diana Vreeland, New York, 1982
Carla Bruni, 1993
CAMERA WORK
Kate Moss with Hat, 1993
Gary Bernstein
Elizabeth Taylor, 1986
The Archives Store
Marisa Berenson and Jennifer O'Neill, VOGUE, 1965
Hang Loose, 2006
Vogue Anniversary, 1992
Seek, 2011
Japanese, b. 1930
Sante D'Orazio
Marco Glaviano


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Magpies' match off after cold snap
Victory Park during a previous cold snap in 2013
Chorley's home National League North clash against Stockport on Saturday has fallen victim to the weather.
The club's Victory Park pitch is frozen after the icy conditions of the last few days.
A statement on the Magpies' website on Thursday evening read: "Our National League North match versus Stockport County, scheduled to be played this Saturday, has been postponed.
"The decision was made after the recent bad weather we've had in the area.
"An announcement will be made about the rescheduling off the fixture as soon as decision is made."
Police warn of 'some disruption' in town centre ahead of Chorley FC vs Stockport County potential title decider